I saw this item in today’s Code Project newsletter, and I find it very interesting that a wide variety of GNU/Linux distributions (the OS Steve Balmer called a virus) are now being very actively supported by the corporation. The article provides a very detailed overview of how they do it.
I hope you find it as interesting as I did,
Ernie
Gut reaction to the server outage last weekend ?
My gut tells me that the dev team was under the gun to get the patch out the door, as if on some poorly conceived schedule, and couldn’t do their due diligence, before releasing it, either that, or someone was simply lazy/too dependent on automated checks, to properly verify the correctness of the patch.
Ernie
It seems Microsoft is diving even deeper into Linux. Saw this article on ZDnet today.
Me too. Too bad they’re only releasing coreutils for windows as an EXE executable file. If you ask me, they’d do better to integrate them into the Explorer shell, replacing any existing and conflicting commands, and even rewrite the Explorer shell with all the functionality of the BASH shell (at least it’s programming language), and getting rid of all that PowerShell rubbish. Then they’d have something (Sadly nothing like that’d never happen - they’d fear it’d look bad for them)!
Ernie
They might as well use bash in the first place.
What they cant provide is free compilers and build tools. … that is what originally swayed me to Unix.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
They could, but they won’t. That’s one place where they make money. All I was thinking was that if the folks at Microsoft were really smart, they’d take the parts of GNU/Linux into Windows to make their OS better. As far as I’m concerned, PowerShell’s a waste of time because no one can learn and remember the names and use of all the applets PowerShell uses to get things done. While I can copy/paste PowerShell commands to do things I read about in newsletter items I see, actually using it for anything actually productive is a hopeless task for me, and I’m not really interested enough to try to learn its basic commands. I’ve been unable to find a beginner’s PowerShell tutorial, and t tell the truth, when there’s something I want to do using it, I can ask Gemini how to get the task completed. I suppose I/m getting a bit old and set in my ways to try to learn yet another programming/scripting language.
Ernie
… or try to make a cheap copy (coreutils for Windows) …
Ernie
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
– Mahatma Gandhi
It has been around since DOS/Win3.x
No amount of addons will fix something that is basically ill designed in the first place.
That’s why I’d prefer Microsoft do away with it. As far as I know, Microsoft provides no documentation for PowerShell, and if they do, it’s well enough hidden that I’ve been unable to find it. At least with BASH, I can use my BASH Scripting Guide or my Bash Shell Scripting Guide as as reference like I do on Garuda.
Ernie